Picasa 2 Released
3 years, 7 months ago 
I’ve always been a huge fan of the Picasa software, for managing your photo collection on your computer. I think it is one of the best free software packages avaialable, and reminds me so strongly of iPhoto, it’s hard not to like it. The old version offered great speed and efficiency of photo manipulation, and (one of my favourite additions) automatically organised your photos into the year they were taken, using EXIF data.
The new package - Picasa2 (download here) - expands on the original, and offers several improved features:
- Redesigned User Interface - New buttons, and general layout
- Blogger - You can now post your photos to blogger, directly from the program
- CD Burning - Make backups of your photos
- Improved Editing - Red Eye works better, and there are more advanced features
- Captions - You can write descriptions of all your photos to view
- Gift CD - Burn a timeline CD of your photos for friends and family
I think this program is superb - the fact that it is availiable completely free is even better. You can download the program from Picasa’s website.
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March 31st, 2006 at 5:44 am
Thomas Cruise Mapother IVknow garageband can do essentially what you’re asking, maybe sound studio too. That old school classic app SoundApp was amazing and would probably work as well. I know it does work under classic.
March 31st, 2006 at 5:46 am
Truman Capotethis is what I wanted to find!
April 1st, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Perry Comomight be worth a look — or MP3 Trimmer, which does more than trim.
May 23rd, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Chaplin LillitaI use a virtually unknown program called iTunes to merge MP3 files.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Liden Chileslet me know here and we can figure out a way of getting this to you.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Jeffery Charles William Michaelthis is what I wanted to find!
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Roberta StreeterThe price goes to Restiffbard. The iTunes Applescript does the job exactly the way I wanted it. Thanks a lot for your suggestions though, they will undoubtedly come in handy at some later point in time.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:21 pm
John FordI use a virtually unknown program called iTunes to merge MP3 files.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Ernie Gonzaleslet me know here and we can figure out a way of getting this to you.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:23 pm
David Robert JonesI am so thrilled to find this being served for FREE. This is the greatest discovery I have ever made on the web.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Ray Charles RayAre there any mp3 sources for these lectures? It’d be great to be able to listen to them off-line.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Caryn JohnsonI am so thrilled to find this being served for FREE. This is the greatest discovery I have ever made on the web.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Charles Bunchinskyhave spent some time converting and tagging all thee 42 hours into mp3. i was wondering if poeple here are interested in it, as I have already spent a lot of time making it IPOD compactable.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Buddy HackettHmm… Yeah I guess that might work. I’ll have to try it out.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Virginia Patterson HensleyTo join songs, try the old DOS command COPY, like this: copy /b song1.mp3 + song2.mp3 + song3.mpg mysongs.mp3. That should work great.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Leonard Hackerthe best way to turn the rm into mp3 is a piece of software called RM to mp3 converter, look for it on bit torrent.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Monty HallFor instance, I typed “cat” in my Terminal, and dragged three files from my iTunes Music folder in to the Terminal window, and followed with the > pipe and specified ~/Desktop (”~/” is Unix shorthand for your “Home folder”) and the file went to t…
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Henry HallWow!! I personally knew Bucky. I was the one who took him to Apple Computer and introduced him to Steve Jobs who gave him a tour of the Cupertino facility.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Jack ChakrinHave you tried TotalRecorder? I believe it can record pretty much anything you want and output it as MP3.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Dr. Joycemight do the job. Its for Linux (and Windows) but I would expect to be able to compile it under OS X.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:36 pm
FurnierFor instance, I typed “cat” in my Terminal, and dragged three files from my iTunes Music folder in to the Terminal window, and followed with the > pipe and specified ~/Desktop (”~/” is Unix shorthand for your “Home folder”) and the file went to t…
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:37 pm
Truman CapoteIf you’re not afraid of the Unix command line, you could do this with the Cat command. Just type cat mp3-1-name.mp3 mp3-2-name.mp3 mp3-3-name.mp3 > joined-songs.mp3.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:41 pm
Chaplin LillitaI’m not aware of any mp3 sources for the lectures.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:44 pm
John GarfieldHmm… Yeah I guess that might work. I’ll have to try it out.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Mel BrooksThe instructions in the article are really easy to follow - in fact, they deserve to be inscribed in stone for the benefit of humankind (and the puzzlement of future archaeologists).
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:49 pm
JoAnn CastleSounds like a shell script should be able to do it… I’d mpg123 them to .wav, concatenate the wavs (I bet there’s some neat little app that does that), and convert them back.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Frances Gummthis is what I wanted to find!
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Redd Foxx Johnthis is what I wanted to find!
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Melvin KaminskyGiven the name of your weblog and the subject of this post, I’d like to introduce you to the First Crack Podcast (Coffee, Technology, and other Daily Grinds).
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Rocky GrazianoI found more than I expected. thank you, esp. the conversion tip.
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Conrad Robert Falkrecently wrote a guide explaining how to convert .ra files to mp3 using only open source software (mplayer and lame) on windows.
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:27 pm
Bob Dylanthis is what I wanted to find!